Monitoring Bunker Cave (NW Germany): A prerequisite to interpret geochemical proxy data of speleothems from this site

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 409, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 682-695

  Riechelmann, Dana Felicitas Christine ^a,d   Schröder Ritzrau, Andrea ^b   Scholz, Denis ^a   Fohlmeister, Jens ^b   Spötl, Christoph ^c   Richter, Detlev Konrad ^d   Mangini, Augusto ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HEIDELBERG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cave monitoring; Hydro geochemistry; Karst water; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CALCITE PRECIPITATION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA; DISCHARGE BEHAVIOUR; GEOCHEMICAL PROXIES; GERMANY; HYDRO-GEOCHEMISTRY; INSTANTANEOUS RESPONSE; INTERANNUAL; KARST AQUIFER; KARST SYSTEM; KARST WATER; MONITORING PROGRAMS; RAIN WATER; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIFIC WATER CAPACITY; STABLE ISOTOPES; WATER SAMPLES;

AQUIFERS; CARBONATE MINERALS; CLIMATOLOGY; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPES; SEEPAGE;

CAVES;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CALCITE; CAVE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; DECADAL VARIATION; GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; KARST; KARST HYDROLOGY; MONITORING; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RAINWATER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEEPAGE; SPELEOTHEM; STABLE ISOTOPE; STALAGMITE;

GERMANY;

EID: 80054705578     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.08.068     Document Type: Article

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